On Jul 25, 2015 7:39 AM, "Matthias Schiffer" <mschif...@universe-factory.net> wrote: > > On 07/25/2015 03:55 PM, John Crispin wrote: > > > > > > On 25/07/2015 14:46, Matthias Schiffer wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I'd like to propose to split the current "base" opkg repo into two, one > >> for userspace applications and one for kernel modules. This would > >> greatly simplify providing your own kernel module repository with > >> modules for a customized kernel, while still being able to rely on the > >> upstream "base" repo for userspace. > >> > >> I'll provide a patch for this if you think this is a reasonable idea. > >> > >> Matthias > >> > > > > i think the current setup works very well for open drivers and code. > > fixing up openwrt for out of tree modules is imho not a good idea as it > > allows companies to easily avoid upstreaming stuff. > > > > why dont you just include your magic USP into openwrt and/or upstream ? > > I'm not talking about out-of-tree modules at all, I'm talking about the > kmod-* packages in the base repo. I want to provide an own opkg repo > with the same kernel modules, but built for a customized kernel. > > As these modules' ABI depends on the kernel configuration (and thus the > kernel configuration is included in the version number as "vermagic"), I > need to provide the kernel modules built matching my configuration. As > far as I know there's no way to tell opkg to prefer the modules from my > repo, regardless of the version number, so I'm asking for a base repo > without any kmod-* packages.
But since this is already a custom repository, why not take care yourself of synchronizing the base packages (but not kmod-*) from OpenWrt's upstream directly? If you dedicate a custom kernel image version to make sure that OpenWrt kmods cannot be installed, does not that work already? > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >
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